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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. – Cormac McCarthy Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings. – Cormac McCarthy Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. – Richard Feynman Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. – Mark Twain Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties. – Ralph W. Sockman Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The definition of insanity is decreed far too often by individuals with no proof they themselves are sane. – Meaghan Buisson Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.) – Robert Wright Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white. – William James Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. – Carl Gustav Jung Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Henry S. Haskins Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development. – Edgar Cayce Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. – Pliny the Elder Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. – Ambrose Bierce Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard Feynman Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity. – Robert Wright Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most--feels the noblest--acts the best. – Philip James Bailey Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Should Have Stayed at Bus Station: Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy. – Slacker Movie Quote	added 1 year ago
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. – Robert Frost Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Good evening everyone - you're in the right place at the right time - this is Coast to Coast AM blasting out of the Mojave Desert like a scirocco blazing across the land, slamming into your radio like a supercharged nanoparticle of unobtainium. Greetings from the boldest, bawdiest, most outrageous city in the world. The planetary capital of sun, fun, sin, sex, and secrets -- my not-so-humble hometown, Las Vegas Nevada. My name is George Knapp, your occasional host - designated driver of the airwaves and moderator of tonight's upcoming cacophonous cavalcade of conversation. – George Knapp Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Red: Get busy livin' or get busy dyin' - that's goddamn right. – The Shawshank Redemption Movie Quote	added 1 year ago
OH, START FRYING THE JUMBO, HOMER. EXTRA CRISPY, PLEASE! – Mike Lange Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Keaton: Why don't you just shut up? McManus: You're missing the point. Keaton: No. You're missing the point. I don't want to hear anything from you. I don't care about your "job." And uh, I want nothing to do with any of you. I beg your pardon but you can all go to hell. – The Usual Suspects Movie Quote	added 1 year ago
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Famous Quote	added 1 year ago

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